We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
HERMANN HESSEA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Every experience has its element of magic.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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